Morpheus Completes Nighttime Flight Test

May 30, 2014 3:51 PM

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Published by Klaus Schmidt on Fri May 30, 2014 8:29 am via: NASA

The first free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander at night was conducted May 28 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 98-second test began at 10:02 p.m. EDT with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over a flame trench and ascending more th...